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Holocaust Photos

Holocaust Photos. From The National Archives WARNING The photos you are about to see are GRAPHIC As American Soldiers moved in to liberate Jewish Prisoners in the Death camps, this is what they saw…. This building in Hadamar, Germany was used by the Germans as a prison.

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Holocaust Photos

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  1. Holocaust Photos From The National Archives WARNING The photos you are about to see are GRAPHIC As American Soldiers moved in to liberate Jewish Prisoners in the Death camps, this is what they saw…

  2. This building in Hadamar, Germany was used by the Germans as a prison

  3. Inmates of the Wobbelin Concentration Camp soon after it was liberated by the 8th Infantry Division and the 82nd Airborne Division. May 4, 1945

  4. Inmates of the Wobbelin Concentration Camp soon after it was liberated by the 8th Infantry Division and the 82nd Airborne Division.

  5. Crowded barracks at Buchenwald Concentration Camp. April 16, 1945. Elie Wiesel, second row from the bottom, seventh from the left, would later become an author and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

  6. In the women's camp at Mauthausen, survivors line up for soup

  7. An inmate at Gusen concentration camp, a sub-camp of Mauthausen

  8. Emaciated prisoners wedged into a bunk house at Mauthausen. Liberated by 11th Armored Division

  9. In a box car at Dachau concentration camp, American Medical Corpsmen examine the dead bodies of prisoners.

  10. U.S. troops watch a passing cart laden with corpses intended for burial leave the compound of the Dachau concentration camp.

  11. Dead bodies are stacked on the ground at Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation by American forces near Weimar, Germany, in April 1945 in World War II.

  12. A wagon loaded with corpses intended for burial in Buchenwald.

  13. American soldiers walk by row after row of corpses lying on the ground beside barracks at the Nazi concentration camp at Nordhausen, Germany, April 17, 1945. The U.S. Army found more than 3000 bodies, and a handful of survivors.

  14. A group of American editors and publishers in Dachau are shown the corpses of prisoners during an inspection of the camp.

  15. The bodies of dead prisoners await cremation in Nazi Germany's Mauthausen concentration camp during World War II. One body is on a stretcher near the oven. This photo, taken at great risk by Swiss prisoner Kurt Zalud, was later used as evidence in the Dachau war crimes trial.

  16. Inmates at the Mauthausen concentration camp are liberated by the 11th Armored Division.

  17. After the liberation by American troops, bodies are removed for burial at KZ Gusen, a satellite of the German concentration camp Mauthausen near Linz, Austria, on May 12, 1945. The inmates were forced to work in nearby stone quarries until total exhaustion and than killed by the German SS guards.

  18. Lt. Col. Ed Seiller, head of the military government section of the 12th Armoured Division, U.S. Army, talks to German civilians as he stands among some of the hundreds of Jewish prisoners burnt alive by their SS guards at the Nazi concentration camp in Landsberg, near Munich, Germany. Seiller rounded up 200 German civilians and forced them to witness the Nazi atrocities.

  19. Residents of Nordhausen dig graves for a mass burial of dead prisoners from a World War II local concentration camp under the watch of an armed soldier of the U.S. First Army on April 14, 1945.

  20. An American soldier stands above the corpses of children that are to be buried in a mass grave dug by German civilians from the nearby town of Nordhausen.

  21. Liberating soldiers of Lt. General George S. Patton's 3rd Army, XX Corps, are shown at Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany

  22. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, third from left, front, and a group of high ranking U.S. Army officers look over the charred bodies of prisoners who were burned in the concentration camp on April 23,1945 at Gotha, Germany.

  23. Three starved and maltreated prisoners of war huddle together at the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, in April 1945, just before American troops liberated the camp.

  24. G.I.'s inspect the ovens of the Dachau, Germany concentration camp crematorium on May 5, 1945 in which the bodies of thousands of Holocaust victims were burned during World War II.

  25. Charred remains of bodies were found by U.S. troops of the 80th Division in the furnace chamber at Buchenwald concentration camp, near Weimar, Germany, in April 1945.

  26. Thousands of wedding rings were found by 1st U.S. Army in a cave adjoining the Buchenwald concentration camp, near Weimar, Germany, May 1945. German SS guards removed them from the dead bodies of their victims in order to salvage the gold.

  27. This is a crematorium built by the Nazis in Lublin, Poland, shown Aug. 14, 1944, where the bodies of those tortured to death were burned. Victims included many nationalities: Poles, Russians, Ukrainians and others.

  28. A male SS guard hauls a body into a mass grave for slain prisoners at the Nazi concentration camp in Bergen-Belsen, Germany, in April 1945. British troops liberated the camp on April 15.

  29. Mass Grave

  30. Mass Grave

  31. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke

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